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Take back your time and attention with digital minimalism

Mashable VR

It was the second winter of the pandemic when Alexis Grams, 28, a project manager from Minnesota, decided to make a drastic change. Grams had inadvertently peeked behind the curtain of the social media machine and discovered its true cost: time. What he learned was profound.

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A History of Haptics: Electric Eels to an Ultimate Display

HaptX

David also helps maintain a website about haptic media studies and has a book about the history of haptics called Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing , coming out in early 2018 with the University of Minnesota Press. Source: University of Minnesota Press. Greg Bilsland.

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